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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Gray, ME

September 19, 2009Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Carroll County, Coos County, Grafton County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this freeze warning at Sep 19, 2009, 2:43 AM EDT for Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Carroll County, Coos County, Grafton County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Sep 20, 2009, 1:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 19, 2009, 2:43 AM EDT (06:43 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 20, 2009, 1:00 AM EDT
Expired
Sep 20, 2009, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

Counties Franklin County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Carroll County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 333 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Chatham, MA at 00:00Z on 2009-09-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 100 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Chatham, MA at 00:00Z on 2009-09-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
100 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
852 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 19, 2:43 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryGYXAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Somerset, York29 hr
Sep 19, 10:41 AM EDTRed Flag WarningGYX6 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Maine, 2009Freeze Warnings in New Hampshire, 2009Every freeze warning in 2009

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.